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Meanings of meretricious in English
Synonyms
Examples for "gilded"
Examples for "gilded"
1
At eight in the morning the sun already gilded the vast opening.
2
I have all the philosophers in my library gilded on the edges.
3
The brightest of sunshine gilded the spires and steeples of the village.
4
The gilded Swiss clock in the drawing-room was striking its tiny gong.
5
The morning sun gilded the new lapis collar that she was wearing.
1
It was specious-whichis the best that can be said for it.
2
He would be put on the sacrificial altar for that specious truth.
3
His demand of the supreme authority was evaded on some specious pretext.
4
Drawing specious connections isn't just for musicians, but music journos as well.
5
His reasoning is specious, but beneath the sophistry there is a plan.
Usage of meretricious in English
1
There is not a meretricious or humiliating book in the whole collection.
2
Gloriani's statues were florid and meretricious; they looked like magnified goldsmith's work.
3
The meretricious melodrama did not fool them, but they delighted in its absurdities.
4
The over-rated, overpaid, and most meretricious painter died at Hampton Court in 1707.
5
It's a meretricious parade in which style reigns supreme over content.
6
Her great effort to keep herself young had led to a meretricious childishness.
7
But to-night her now hateful, meretricious image rose, with horrid vividness, before him.
8
It is like all your poetry-merelymeretricious glitter; there is no heart in it.
9
In the law courts the same smart epigrams, the same meretricious style were required.
10
She was half-angry with him in the carriage, and said something about meretricious manners.
11
A phrase used adjectively sometimes of meretricious attempts to catch or win popular favor.
12
I'm afraid writers are apt to use stock phrases in the same meretricious fashion.
13
That meretricious splendour was the only one to be met in Mrs Verloc's visions.
14
Not a hint of meretricious emphasis on their luster and yet they fairly flame.
15
But then it looked insincere, meretricious, affected, and always haggard.
16
The home circle is select and chaste-thepromiscuous intermingling with the world meretricious and contaminating.
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United Kingdom
Common